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Instant access to various platforms
Find your fans wherever they are
Payout control and transparency
Get paid as soon as you make a sale
457 products under one roof
Choose products that fit your brand
Businesses that trust Printful
Sell the same merch as world-class brands
Take control of your profit
No payout delays
With Printful and our integrations, you don’t need to request your money in advance
Multiple payment methods
We accept credit cards, debit cards, PayPal, BNPL programs like Klarna, and even crypto
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Comparing both ecommerce platforms
What is Printful?
Printful is an on-demand production and fulfillment company that lets you sell products on your ecommerce platform of choice without dealing with equipment, shipping, or inventory management.
Printful owns the entire production process. This allows for rigorous quality control and consistent printing tech, resulting in a 0.24% reshipment rate.
Printful offers full control over your business—you pay the production and shipping costs, set your own prices, sell on a platform like TikTok Shop, and withdraw your profit anytime.
What is Spring?
Spring (previously known as Teespring) lets you design and sell merch made by different partner fulfillment centers around the world. You can also host an ecommerce store using Spring to sell on certain social media platforms.
Spring doesn’t own the production process or print on the products. Instead, the company acts as a middleman between you and different print providers. All products are outsourced to other printing companies, each with its own print quality and shipping costs.
To manage earnings payouts, Spring works exclusively with PayPal/Payoneer. Sellers must request their profit in advance, and Spring processes the requests once a month.
What’s the main difference?
The main differences between the two on-demand solutions are their printing network and sales channels. Printful has in-house production facilities, while Spring outsources to external partners. When it comes to selling products, Printful integrates with various ecommerce platforms, and Spring is exclusively focused on social media sales channels.
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- Dependable quality and support in all markets
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- Better customer experience for multi-item orders
- Streamlined branding for your products and packaging
Printful in numbers
457
products to customize
1M+
items fulfilled each month
22
integration partners
121M
items trusted to deliver
Frequently asked questions
Yes, between the two POD companies, Printful products are cheaper. The lower product base price allows you to generate higher profit margins.
The additional cost for Spring products likely comes from the major difference between the store setup methods of both companies. Printful offers 22 ecommerce integrations where you can sell your products, including popular online marketplaces and social media sites. By contrast, Spring hosts the stores and is focused on social media as creators’ marketing tools.
It depends on your specific needs. If your audience is concentrated on specific platforms like Twitch or OnlyFans, you’ll benefit from using Spring’s direct integrations. But if you want to be in control of your business and profits, Printful’s system and seller support services are a better fit.
Printful also has a wider range of printing methods and product categories, while Spring allows you to sell digital products on your storefront. Evaluate the tools both platforms offer and choose the right provider for you.
Yes! Since Printful has a wide variety of integrations, an easy way to sell on social media is by creating a store and connecting it to the platform of your choice. For example, you can start a Shopify store and sell to your audience through the YouTube® Merch Shelf.
With Printful integrations, you can sell directly on most of the same social media channels as Spring, except for Twitch, Beacon, and OnlyFans. But even without direct sales channels, you can still monetize your audiences with a standalone store.
Each of the two is a print-on-demand company, but they manage fulfillment in different ways. Printful owns and controls the entire production process, while Spring simply connects sellers to printing partners.
As a result, Printful is able to maintain consistent quality control practices across the world, which creates a positive customer experience no matter where your buyers are. Spring is a network that acts as a middleman between printing partners and the customer. Outsourcing the production to other suppliers means there’s little consistency in Spring’s quality control.
Yes, Spring’s catalog includes around 180 products, while Printful has 457 custom products. Printful also has more fulfillment methods, product categories, and branding options than Spring.
For apparel, Spring only offers 4 types of fulfillment: direct-to-garment printing (DTG), screen printing, embroidery, and all-over-printing. Most of the company’s catalog is focused on t-shirts, with many other categories having much fewer products to choose from.
When it comes to branding tools, Spring offers very few ways of maintaining a brand presence for its sellers. Printful supports product branding options like inside labels, white label order tracking, custom packing slips, and even advanced options like custom packaging and pack-ins.
Yes, you can use Printful for free—create a Printful account with no signup or subscription fees. From there, customize products using Printful’s user-friendly interface and sell them without any hidden costs. Start with some t-shirts and build your successful business from there!
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Absolutely! By teaming up with Printful, you get high-quality products printed with one partner, by one team, under one roof.
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